Ask the Author: Candice Azalea Greene
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Candice Azalea Greene
As I'm sure most writers do, I have an extensive list of stories I've started writing but haven't finished. I'm a custodian by trade, which gives me a lot of time to think. While cleaning one day, the idea to weave books I've started together into one series began to take hold. An indie author friend asked what my writing goal was for 2019 and I decided I would write and publish a book. I've been wanting to combine my two genres of horror and fantasy all year so I thought about writing dark fantasy. Then with NaNoWriMo coming up, I needed an idea for that. Thus was born the idea of a seven-book series following different characters I have grown to love but never thought I'd see published.
Candice Azalea Greene
Books saved my life, especially Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. I was able to escape my traumatic reality by going on grand adventures with dragons and other fantastical creatures. That's what I would like for my stories, to help others cope with the dark things they are going through. That is why I'll probably never write a story that is nothing but rainbows and unicorns--unless the unicorns are evil creatures that want to suck all the rainbows from the world.
Candice Azalea Greene
I'm currently writing Book One of a seven-book new adult fantasy series. There's a prophecy that if seven half-fae girls get together, they can destroy the world with their combined magical powers. One of the girls believes the entire world has been reading the prophecy wrong and wants to save the world. She has the ability to travel through time so she is on a hunt for the other six girls. Each book follows a different girl as they come into their powers and find each other.
The first book follows 18-year-old Kat as she is kidnapped by faeries and has to find a way to save not only her 4-year-old niece, but herself as well.
The first book follows 18-year-old Kat as she is kidnapped by faeries and has to find a way to save not only her 4-year-old niece, but herself as well.
Candice Azalea Greene
Just write. Give yourself permission to fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, until one day you get it right. You can always edit bad words but you can never edit a blank page.
Candice Azalea Greene
Creating something from nothing. That first spark of an idea that titillates the back of your mind and slowly evolves into a full-blown story.
Candice Azalea Greene
Instead of writer's block, I now call it "creative hibernation". I think I saw that on a meme in recent months and fell in love with the term. Writer's block has such negative connotations to creative individuals. Hibernation is a better way to describe it because your creativity isn't blocked, it's just slumbering.
I had a bout of creative hibernation from the end of June until the start of NaNoWriMo. Due to a bad work situation, I was really struggling with depression and was too exhausted (emotionally, mentally, and physically) to write. I'm afraid I didn't handle the entire situation well and can't give a definitive answer. My advice would be to stay positive and remind yourself you've been through this before and as always, you will come out of it. I knew NaNo was coming up and made a plan to write the first book in a 7-book fantasy series I'll start publishing next fall. Having that plan probably helped me the most. Then I knew that bout of creative hibernation wasn't going to last forever. I was going to give NaNo my all and see what happened.
I had a bout of creative hibernation from the end of June until the start of NaNoWriMo. Due to a bad work situation, I was really struggling with depression and was too exhausted (emotionally, mentally, and physically) to write. I'm afraid I didn't handle the entire situation well and can't give a definitive answer. My advice would be to stay positive and remind yourself you've been through this before and as always, you will come out of it. I knew NaNo was coming up and made a plan to write the first book in a 7-book fantasy series I'll start publishing next fall. Having that plan probably helped me the most. Then I knew that bout of creative hibernation wasn't going to last forever. I was going to give NaNo my all and see what happened.
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